Getting into a Mac already has a ceremony everyone knows: the blurred wallpaper, the big clock, a row of round faces, a translucent field with an arrow. MiniMac borrows it. Your Macs are the accounts; picking one is signing in.
Exploratory set, not the chosen Poster look. Phones are 402 × 874 pt; the Duo is its 669 × 951 pt inner screen with the fold at 455.5 to 495.5.
Your Mac’s screen, keyboard and trackpad, on this iPhone. Sign in to it the way you sign in at the desk.
MiniMac finds your Macs on this Wi-Fi. iPhone will ask you to allow Local Network next; say Allow.
Nothing leaves your network.
Touch ID or Enter Password
Wrong password. Try again.
Hint: your Studio login, not Apple Account.
Use a pairing code instead
Sends a wake signal over Wi-Fi. Takes about ten seconds.
Open MiniMac on your Mac and keep both on the same network, or add one with its pairing code.
Type the code MiniMac shows on your Mac.
Three fingers down on the trackpad to come back
Touch ID or Enter Password
Three fingers down on the trackpad to come back
A Gold Coast dusk, drawn from layered CSS gradients and blurred, so it costs nothing to ship. It returns sharp as the Mac desktop on connect, which makes the transition read as focus arriving.
Every translucent field and button uses backdrop blur where the browser or iOS supports it, and a solid slate fill where it does not. Both pass contrast with white text.
No Apple logo anywhere, menu bar included. The Mac drawings are simple silhouettes of Studio, MacBook Air and Mini, in the app’s own colours.